Re: [Origami] where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-10-06 Thread Peter Engel
"I’d also just like to see if Peter Engel perhaps would tell us a bit more. I think in Folding the Universe you quote Yoshizawa on the same subject… and Arthur L Loeb mentions music in the introduction too. Peter it would be interesting if you can remember - was there a conversation with

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-30 Thread David Mitchell via Origami
Gerardo wrote: >There's a reference to folding and music in an essay by Tolstoy titled What is >Art? Wow! What does it mention in regard to both? This needs some clarification: In their article 'Leo Tolstoy and the Art of Origami' in British Origami 186 of October 1997, Misha Litvinov and

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-28 Thread gera...@neorigami.com
Thank you once more to everyone who replied my question, both through the list and privately. I now see, to my surprise, that different people have come up with the same analogy.  I wanted to concentrate on Lee's very rich email on the subject. Thank you, Lee for it! There's a reference to

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
I started thinking about similarities between origami and music when it occurred to me that in popular music there are people who write songs and people who sing songs, and sometimes people do both but often they don't. It seems to me that in origami, traditional models are like traditional

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread gera...@neorigami.com
Sorry, I should have used the word "performer" instead of "interpreter" . I got mixed up with the word in Spanish "intérprete" which means "performer". Hopefully, everyone was able to get what I meant through context. -- Gerardo G. gerardo(a)neorigami.com instagram.com/NeorigamiComKnowledge

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread gera...@neorigami.com
I received different answers regarding my question about the comparison between origami and music, both through the list and privately. Thank you all very much. I wanted to explain a bit more about the comparison I've "heard" in various occasions, which I'm asking about. I've often taken part

Re: [Origami] where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Lee Armstrong via Origami
e specific > than "Re: Contents of Origami digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Apologies to John Montroll and all from Michigan (Bonnie Hurley) > 2. Where does the comparison between origami and music come > from? (gera...@neorigami.com) > 3.

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread KDianne Stephens via Origami
One might logically think the Origami and music comparison stems from both being built on mathematical principles On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 7:38 PM gera...@neorigami.com wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Ever since I became an active member of the origami community, through the > web, I've heard about

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Papirfoldning.dk
> On 24 Sep 2023, at 20.48, Diana Lee via Origami > wrote: > I'm not sure if this would hold up in court, but you can see the parallel. > The problem can then extend to: > 1) if you buy a pattern to knit a scarf, > 2) if you buy a recipe to bake a cake > 3) if you buy instructions to

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Diana Lee via Origami
I have heard of origami being similar to music in terms of origami diagrams and music sheets in relation to copyright infringement.   Origami diagrams are a set of instructions the same way music sheets are a set of instructions.  Thus, if it is copyright infringement to play other people's

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Chila Caldera via Origami
What an interesting topic! I remember first hearing the analogy between origami and music when I heard about Robert Lang's use of the term "opus" for the different versions of his models. And to change the subject, but not that much, I have for quite a few years now, when teaching classes at the

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Peter Engel
On Sep 23, 2023, at 6:38 PM, gera...@neorigami.com wrote: I'm curious about it. Where does this idea come from? Who was the first to propose it and where did he or she do it? Hi Gerardo, I’m sure there’s not a “first,” but when I wrote about origami and music in my book Folding the Universe

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-23 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
I've thought of it myself -- I don't think I heard it from anyone else, but it seems like a natural comparison. Mike Naughton On 9/23/2023 9:38 PM, gera...@neorigami.com wrote: Hi everyone. Ever since I became an active member of the origami community, through the web, I've heard about the

[Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-23 Thread gera...@neorigami.com
Hi everyone. Ever since I became an active member of the origami community, through the web, I've heard about the comparison between origami and music and how in both there are composers and interpreters. I'm curious about it. Where does this idea come from? Who was the first to propose it and